6 new IIT's will be Launched : Union Government gives approval

Updated on: Tuesday, December 08, 2015

The Union Cabinet has given a nod to six new Indian Institutes of Technology on December 2. The new IIT will come up in the states of Andhra Pradesh, Chhatisgarh, Goa, Jammu and Kashmir, Kerala and Karnataka. Prime Minister, Narendra Modi has given his approval for operationalisation of these IITs.

Key highlights of the six new IITs which got approval from the government:

The new IITs may come up in these cities: Tirupati, Palakkad, Jammu, Bhilai-Durg, Dharwar and Goa.
The initial intake will be of 180 students in its first year and would increase to 450 in the second year and to 928 (840 Undergraduates, 80 Postgraduates and 8 PhDs) in the third year of their operation
New IITs will be operated from their temporary campuses for the initial period of three years, before shifting to their permanent campuses in the 4th year.
The faculty-student ratio would be 1:10.
The total cost for running these IITs is Rs 1,411.80 crore and will be incurred between 2015-16 and 2018-19
There are already 16 IITs, one each at Gandhinagar, Bombay, New Delhi, Roorkee, Kharagpur, Chennai, Guwahati, Indore, Kanpur, Jodhpur, Bhubaneswar, Hyderabad, Patna, Ropar, Mandi and Varanasi.

According to PTI reports, the six new IITs will be registered as Societies as the Institutes of Technology Act, 1961, contains no provision to enable establishment of new IITs.

"Every new IIT commenced since its enactment has required an amendment to the Act itself. In light of this, it would be appropriate to establish the new IITs through the formation of Societies as it has not been possible to amend the Institutes of Technology Act, 1961 to make provision for establishment of new IITs, before the admissions to academic session 2015-16 in these new IITs," the statement added. However there has been no official announcement on the names of the cities where these IITs would come up.

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